R and spatial data: intermediate 1

2019-02-26

Simplifying patterns

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Way too many points

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Aggregating data

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Source Geospatial Analysis

Changing representation

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Source Wikipedia

Finding relationship

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What we are going to cover

Create and manipulate spatial point and polygon data
Convert data into different representations
Aggregate counts of points
Summarize density of variable
Learn about spatial joins

Setting up (1)

Download and unzip

https://github.com/RPanczak/ReduSpatial

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Setting up (2)

In RStudio: File >> Open Project... choose ReduSpatial.Rproj

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